CVE-2018-17101
8.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.54%
Description
An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There are two out-of-bounds writes in cpTags in tools/tiff2bw.c and tools/pal2rgb.c, which can cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file.
How to fix CVE-2018-17101
To remediate CVE-2018-17101, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/tiff—upgrade to 4.0.9-r8 or later
- —upgrade to 4.0.9+git181026-1 or later
Is CVE-2018-17101 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 4.0.9-r8
- from 0, < 4.0.9+git181026-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |